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The Inheritance of IQ and Scholastic Achievement: Further Comment on the Jensen Article.
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Conwill, William L. – Journal of Negro Education, 1980
Summarizes Arthur Jensen's theories on IQ, heritability, and Black intelligence and reviews some responses to Jensen. (JLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Genetics, Heredity
Birth Order, Age-Spacing, IQ Differences, and Family Relations.
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Pfouts, Jane H. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1980
Very close age spacing was an obstacle to high academic performance for later borns. In family relations and self-esteem, first borns scored better and performed in school as well as their potentially much more able younger siblings, regardless of age spacing. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Birth Order, Family Influence
Distorted Vision: Education As Seen through "The Bell Curve."
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Robitaille, David F.; Robeck, Edward C. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
"The Bell Curve" claims that most human differences and almost all social injustices can be traced to intelligence, and that distribution of intelligence should influence distribution of educational resources to allow students to find their proper and inevitable place in society. Applied to educational policy, this vision of the world…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Discrimination, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Is "The Bell Curve" a Ringer?
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Wangler, David G. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Calls for careful but unemotional criticism of "The Bell Curve." Notes that: three chapters that deal with the IQ-race relationship have received most critical attention; genetically based racial categories do not exist; disadvantaged minority-group students have achieved success in Catholic schools with high expectations of students;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Assumptions versus History in Ethnic Education.
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Sowell, Thomas – Teachers College Record, 1981
In an attempt to investigate factors surrounding educational performance among different ethnic and racial groups, several areas are examined: (1) segregation; (2) performance levels and intelligence quotient variables among various ethnic groups; (3) intergroup differences among segregated and nonsegregated groups; (4) socioeconomic variables;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Educational Status Comparison, Equal Education
Asian-American Educational Achievements: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation.
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Sue, Stanley; Okazaki, Sumie – American Psychologist, 1990
Investigates factors, including heredity and culture, contributing to exceptional Asian American academic achievement. Proposes the concept of relative functionalism, under which Asian Americans perceive and have experienced restrictions in upward mobility in occupations unrelated to education. Consequently, educational achievement assumes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Cultural Influences
Bilingual Hispanic Children on the U.S. Mainland: A Review of Research on Their Cognitive, Linguistic, and Scholastic Development. Emphasizing Studies Involving the English- and Spanish-Language Versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised.
Dunn, Lloyd M. – 1988
A review of research on the cognitive, linguistic, and scholastic development of mainland Hispanic-American children paints a dismal overall picture. Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, 11% of the population in 1986; about 75% have Mexican ancestry. Less than half of Latin adults speak English well enough for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism